End-to-end technical architecture for the HK-based manufacturing platform.
How a client order from Nike or Adidas flows through the platform — from the moment it arrives to the moment the factory begins production.
Nike, Adidas, Lululemon or On Apparel sends a new production order to the HK office.
AI scans the order and flags any missing fields — address, fabric spec, colour — and predicts delivery risks before proceeding.
Gemini AI reads the product spec and auto-generates a complete Bill of Materials with quantities, grounded in the client's BOM library.
SZ Factory or HK Team reviews the BOM, drag-reorders priority, edits quantities, and confirms the materials list.
Confirmed order + BOM + sample goods image dispatched to SZ Factory. AI recommends the best factory based on capacity.
Factory exports the material collection list as PDF and prints it for the warehouse and production floor team.
Client submits order. HK team validates completeness. AI flags delivery risks before production begins.
AI generates BOM from product specs. SZ Factory / HK team reviews, edits, and confirms the materials list before dispatch.
Order dispatched to SZ Factory with BOM and sample image. Factory exports and prints the material collection list for the production floor.
How a single order flows through the entire stack
Mars builds and hosts the app. Here's what stays on your side — hardware, cloud accounts, and data — so you own your data and cloud footprint from day one.
staff@yourcompany.com) and system notifications. Use your existing domain.No new tablets, no custom scanners, no native apps. If you already have staff work phones and an internet connection, you're 90% there. The heaviest lift is the Material Master and BOM Library seed data — Mars helps structure them in a kickoff workshop.
Two ways to lock the app down so only authorised devices / users can reach it. Click each option to expand.
Configure a Cloudflare WAF rule that blocks every request not originating from the HK office public IP, the SZ factory public IP, or a short allowlist of approved locations. No client software, no added latency — just a firewall rule in front of the app.
Deploy a licensed enterprise VPN gateway. Staff install a VPN client on their laptop / tablet and connect before opening the app — all traffic is tunnelled through the company's VPN IP, which is the only IP the WAF allows. Legal for SZ factory use (consumer VPNs are not).
Required for ManufactureOS to work for heat-transfer products manufacturing at the SZ factory. Missing items will delay go-live or reduce AI accuracy.
Approved BOM templates per product type — each template is a list of Material Master references + quantities + instructions + a reference image of the finished product. Grounds the AI so Gemini can't hallucinate materials.
The atomic vocabulary — every raw material the factory uses, as a unique SKU with spec, unit, cost, supplier, lead time, MOQ. Every BOM Library row references a Material Master SKU, so a price or supplier change updates everywhere automatically.
SZ factory's production data. Drives AI capacity prediction and delivery-risk scoring. (Other factories will be added in future phases.)
ManufactureOS augments TOGO — it doesn't replace it. API access is required for two-way sync.
Past 12–24 months of heat-transfer orders — AI uses this to predict delivery risk and SZ capacity loading.
Identity data for authentication and role-based access control.
Legal artefacts needed before cross-border data flow is active.
The 4 items marked CRITICAL block go-live. If the client cannot provide a heat-transfer BOM library, design history, SZ factory master data, and TOGO API access, the project timeline shifts from 4–5 months to 7–8 months while we help build that data from scratch.
Clean separation of ownership. Client keeps full control of their commercial data. Mars retains source-code IP for ongoing maintenance and future apps.